ALL GENDER IS DRAG

"All gender is drag" is a project that uses black and white analog photography as a medium to capture the bodies of Aimé’s friends and acquaintances.

This project is not an open casting, but a choice justifying the reality of the bodies present in their entourage as a queer person. “These bodies are not extraordinary, they are part of my day-to-day life, they are beautiful, real and touching.” adds Aimé Dabbadie. The pictures provide the viewer with different body identities - gender is not a binary concept anymore, it is multitudes of intersecting identities, superimposed, altered, reclaimed, performed and deconstructed. The goal being to question the relevance of assigning a gender to anyone. The project also questions notions of censorship and pre-established standards of beauty. While traveling, Aimé wheat pastes their photos in the street, and in this reclaims the public space usually erasing or policing queer, transgender and non-conforming bodies. Passers-by are confronted with raw body images, in their most striking intimacy and vulnerability.  

Selected works from the series has been shown in Kivik (Sweden), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium) and Bordeaux (France).

Preview of selected works:

Alternative flyers from the exhibitions in Berlin and Bruxelles: